Hi, I have an excel sheet containing downloaded data from a database. The
database reporting function is not working properly and I thought it may be
because the data contains non printable characters such as spaces or carriage
returns. I know how to view these in MS word but haven't found an equivalent
function in Excel.

I had thought of moving all data to Word to identify these but it doesn't
pick them up. Do you know if Excel has a function that will display these
characters on screen and could you tell me how to use please?

Thanks for your help.

Chip Pearson has a very nice addin that will help determine what that
character(s) is:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/CellView.htm


refresh wrote:

Hi, I have an excel sheet containing downloaded data from a database. The
database reporting function is not working properly and I thought it may be
because the data contains non printable characters such as spaces or carriage
returns. I know how to view these in MS word but haven't found an equivalent
function in Excel.

I had thought of moving all data to Word to identify these but it doesn't
pick them up. Do you know if Excel has a function that will display these
characters on screen and could you tell me how to use please?

Thanks for your help.

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Dave Peterson